Nina Garcia is out! (As Elle's fashion director)

"Project Runway" judge Nee-nah Gah-cia (Nina Garcia) has been fired as fashion director of Elle magazine.

Whether this will affect her future as a judge on "Project Runway" isn't clear, but somehow "Nee-nah Gah-cia - former fashion director of Elle Magazine" doesn't quite have the ring to it. No matter how awesomely German host Heidi Klum makes it sound.

Garcia, whose line "don't bore me," has caused many a designer to falter and tremble on stage is often the hardest judge to please on the show.

Meanwhile, there's no word on whether Bravo TV, Lifetime, NBC Universal and other parties have resolved the lawsuit-channel situation that has clouded the future of the reality fashion competition.

-- Malavika Jagannathan, mjaganna@greenbaypressgazette.com